Parents face murder charges in a child’s death

Two Iowa parents have been charged with child endangerment and first-degree murder in the August death of their 4-month-old son, whose maggot-strewn corpse was found “rotting” in a swing in the parents’ apartment in Alta Vista.
Chickasaw County investigators say the child hadn’t been removed from the swing, had a diaper change or a bath in at least a week prior to death. The baby of four months was just seven pounds at death, according to KIMT.
Investigators noted maggots at “various stages of development” throughout the child’s clothes and skin.
Parents Cheyanne Harris and Zachary Koehn both claimed to have checked on the child the day before death, but their claims were inconsistent with autopsy results and other findings from the scene of death.

Two parents face murder charges in a child’s rotting death that goes 'far beyond neglect'